[jira] [Commented] (WHIRR-579) sun jdk install fails

["Donald Smith (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Donald Smith commented on WHIRR-579:
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Hi,

I'm Donald Smith, and am a Product Manager in the Java SE PM team.  

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but it is true that the terms need to be accepted on download from Oracle.  The license does allow for internal only redistribution of the installer, but not external/publicly (see [1]).

This issue has been noted elsewhere as well:
http://issues.hudson-ci.org/browse/HUDSON-9016
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11039

We are aware this is an inconvenience for build communities, and others like yours, and would like to address it.  Unfortunately, it's going to take some time - probably more time than you will be happy with, and I'm sorry about that, but I want to be honest.

In the meantime, we hope that using OpenJDK is viable, relying on your Linux distro, or relying on the end user to already have a JDK/JRE installed somewhere internally.  I'm not familiar with the exact use cases you're dealing with, but you might also want to explore shipping the JRE with your application, which is described in more detail in [2], Section C - may not work for you, but I know it does for some.

Cheers,

 - Don (@DonaldOJDK)

[1] - http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/distribution.xml
[2] - http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html


                
> sun jdk install fails
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: WHIRR-579
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIRR-579
>             Project: Whirr
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: service/hadoop
>    Affects Versions: 0.7.1
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Antonio Piccolboni
>         Attachments: WHIRR-579.patch
>
>
> Due to changes in licensing terms, automatic download from Oracle of the sunjdk is not working. Hence Hadoop installs but fails to launch. To add insult to injury, launch-cluster doesn't fail and I couldn't find a related message in the logs. Potential workarounds need to take into account that it seems like a human has to click on the dreaded Oracle TOS (disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and will never be). How to make that happen with whirr is unclear. The option of not supporting sunjdk seems unappealing as there is limited testing experience with it, I hear from people at Cloudera. But the apache hadoop compatibility page states that that sunjdk is needed only for building. Clarity on this would be helpful to plan ahead.

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